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Rene Descartes on External Reality

Rene Descartes on External Reality

Now, after proving the existence of distinct and clear ideas as the standard for truth, Rene Descartes addresses the potential existence of material outside of the self and God.

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Summary of Meditation VI. Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the real distinction between the Soul and Body of Man.

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